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Harvey officer: Chief was driving erratically

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter fmain@suntimes.com Mar 22, 2011 04:55AM

Harvey police officer Andre Sneed says he called 911 to report his off-duty police chief was driving erratically.

Dolton officers arrested Harvey chief Denard Eaves on suspicion of driving drunk, but he was released without charges, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. Instead, Sneed was threatened and briefly detained before he fled in fear, his lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, which seeks more than $75,000, said Sneed was subjected to a false arrest, and authorities failed to investigate.

The lawsuit said Sneed videotaped Eaves drinking about a dozen beers at a Dolton bowling alley on April 23, 2010, and followed his car when he left that night. Sneed said he called 911, and another Harvey officer flagged down a sheriff’s officer, who stopped Eaves, then let him go.

Sneed said he called 911 again, and two Dolton officers arrested Eaves after he refused a Breathalyzer test. But then-Dolton Police Chief Robert Fox refused to charge Eaves and was leading him to the parking lot when they spotted Sneed, the lawsuit said. Fox ordered Sneed to leave, and Eaves threatened him, the lawsuit said. When Sneed said he was there to file a complaint, Fox escorted him into the station and was looking for handcuffs when Sneed fled, it said.

Sneed said he later received a note at his home saying, “Police Don’t Snitch on Police You Dead Bitch.”

Patrick J. Walsh, attorney for Sneed, said the evidence includes Sneed’s video of Eaves and Walsh’s interviews with the two Dolton officers who said they arrested Eaves.

The defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed Sunday, include Fox, Eaves, former Dolton Inspector General Robert Shaw and Marcus Patterson, commander of the Harvey Police Department’s internal affairs unit. Fox, who now works for the Cook County medical examiner, did not return a call for comment. A Harvey spokeswoman said attorneys for the village will review the lawsuit.

Sneed has been on medical leave from the Harvey Police Department for more than a year.

Yeah, I’m a geek too. this is coming from my Mandriva install. Not too shabby so far!

From BoingBoing:

Reader pbump spliced together this fabulous video from NASA footage taken by the cameras mounted on Discovery’s two solid rocket boosters. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on here, so let me help you get oriented a bit:

We’re talking about the two big white rockets that sit on either side of the space shuttle’s orange central fuel tank. Each of these rockets has two cameras. One points down (from launch orientation), looking at the nose of the space shuttle. The other points up, looking at the underside of Discovery’s wings. All four cameras are represented in this video, with the down-facing ones (Right and Left Forward) in the top two squares, and the up-facing ones (Right and Left Aft) in the bottom squares.

You might think that the moment of launch would be the coolest part of this video. You’d be wrong. For maximum awesomeness, skip ahead to the point where the solid rocket boosters separate from the rest of the shuttle and fall back to Earth. There’s some great shots of tumbling through the void of space, and some exciting scenes of splash-down that must not be missed.

Rob posted footage from one rocket booster camera on a launch last August, but I think this four-way full view adds some nice perspective.

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Phil isn’t retiring. 

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CBS Warner Bros. has fired Charlie Sheen. 

Here is the statement: "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on Two and a Half Men effective immediately," the studio said in a brief statement.

So, here’s a new song:

“Good bye, Charlie, Goodbye Charlie,

Good bye Charlie, your career is now in flames.:

Ain’t nobody gonna hire Mr.. Winning, no how.  If there is a mindless dolt out there that’s thinking of it, use what cells you have left to disabuse yourself of the notion.

Charlie sure as hell ain’t winning.

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Hey, who says training has to be boring????

NU prof holds LIVE sex toy demo

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